Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-30
MONTANA MATTERS.

l A substantial AMI permanent river gaug,
has been put in at Fort Benton.
The survey on the Bitter Root road wa.
begun last Tuesday about two miles soutl
of Missoula.
The Harlem Cattle Company will brin;
into Montana this year 10, o head O
cattle from Indian Territory.
Business on the Bitter Root stage line il
steadily increasing. 1t will boom when
railroad construction begins.
$4,000 ranch building was DESTROYED
on Saturday last while the owner was in
attendance on a jury at Miles City.
The residence being built for Nelson Story
in Bozeman will be the costliest in Montana
when completed next fall at an expense OF
500, 900.
A tramp raided the ice box of a Miles City
household last Saturday night and cap
tured all the edibles prepared for the Sun
day dinner.
Last Sunday evening Jessie Clayton. a
Miles City cyprienne, died in a bagnio there
from an overdose OF morphine administered
by her own hand.
The Bozeman Guards will be composed of
young men. the flower of the town. as
1t were. Including this number will be a
regimental band Of twenty-five pieces.
The Montana stock growers want the
Eastern commission men to change the
present charge OF fifty cents per head on
sales to one per cent Of the gross sale.
-Four distinct lines Of stage coaches OF
four and six horse stock are plying daily
between Helena and Marysville, with pas.
senger hauls averaging from forty to sixty
each and every trip.
A rumor is aaoat that Judge McLeary
contemplate resigning his position as As
sociate Justice Of the Montana Supreme
Court, to return to the practice OF law at
his former hons in Texas.
The average Of the Big Blackfoot saw
mill last week was at the rate OF a thou.
sand feet every FIVE minutes. It lie all the
men can do to keep the platform at the
rear end from choking up with lumber.
A lev OF the moving spirits in the base
bail enterprise laid out the lines anew at
the old grounds in Miles City last Monday
and made preparations for putting up a |
back stop and otherwise improving the
grounds.
On Sunday Of last week an enormous
vein OF coal was struck in the Union Pacific
or Old Chestnut mine, at the Red House. |
The strike. says Mr.. Elsie, will supply the
whole Northwest with coal.-Bozeman
Chronicle.
Oio id1A' h'iuS ItdI CleVeQ6v1lle. !
has shipped to Helena the running mare
Pappoose, having sold her for $500 to Sam
Plunmer. She was sired by Regent. the
sire OF Bonnie Australian, Montana Regent
and Vice Regent.
Gen. williamson. of the Crow Indian
Agency, is authorized to buy twenty-five
for breeding with the Indian
ponies. but being limited to So. 900 he is
waiting for an enlargement of the appro-
priation.
Canby'= blooded colt, Mouse. is stretch
ing out in fine shape this spring. In an
other year he will be old enough 1867 to
attain his Toll growth and promises to be
as feet as the wind with the wind: not
against tJ.-Missoula Times. Fl.
The land slide at Bozeman tunnel was r..
moved on the goth and fourteen delayed
freight trains passed through at once. Since
then the cut at the same place has given
away twice, on Sunday covering the track
forty yards to a depth OF three feet with
silt.
The meeting Of the Stockgrowers' Associ-
alton at Miles City last week was not char
by hilarity and champagne drink
lrg as IN the past. Most of the stockmen
were way down in the mouth and hus-
their resources. As Tor the meeting
it was a good one and lots of business was
transacted.